
The Age of Bowie
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Narrated by:
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Paul Morley
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Paul Morley
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"A handsome six footer with a warm and engaging personality, Davie Jones has all it takes to get to the show business heights including...talent." (David Bowie at 17 in May 1964, writing his own press biography)
Respected arts commentator Paul Morley, one of the team who curated the highly successful retrospective exhibition for the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, David Bowie Is..., constructs the definitive story of Bowie that explores how he worked, played, aged, structured his ideas, invented the future, and entered history as someone who could and would never be forgotten. Morley captures the greatest moments of Bowie's career, from the recording studio with the likes of Brian Eno and Tony Visconti to iconic live performances from the 1970s, '80s, and '90s as well as the various encounters and artistic relationships he developed with rock luminaries John Lennon, Lou Reed, and Iggy Pop. And of course discuss in detail his much-heralded and critically acclaimed comeback with the release of Black Star just days before his shocking death in New York.
Morley will offer a startling biographical critique of David Bowie's legacy, showing how he never stayed still even when he withdrew from the spotlight, how he always knew his own worth, and how he released a dazzling plethora of mobile Bowies into the world with a bloody-minded determination and a voluptuous imagination to create something amazing that was not there before.
©2017 Paul Morley (P)2017 Simon & SchusterCompelling Tour de Force
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If you have, as I have, been a Bowie fan for many years I am sure you will appreciate the style and recognise the homage to a very special entertainer. If you are not really a Bowie fan you should still find it interesting and informative and you may even come to see why Bowie was so important and revered.
The narration was excellent, I feel this book would have suffered without being narrated by the author.
Brilliant!
More than just a biography!
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(One funny detail was how the author pronounces "br". )
Author assumes you know all about Bowie already, so this is not a biography. Also, this was more like a self opinion, not studied and researched fact telling.
You already need to know - not a biography
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great insight
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Excellent
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For me a great artist biography is mostly about the art, or what it cost to make it. Paul Morley is also a great performer. I'm so glad he narrated this himself.
The only Bowie biography I've read multiple times.
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The Age of Bowie
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yes, it's pretentious. But Bowie's line about there not being progress without pretentiousness could have been said about this book, and the relentless energy of Morley's work.
Loved it
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the story
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Amazing insight to the life of a genius
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